This is an incomplete list of caves in China. It includes natural caves and

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grottoes.

Natural caves

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Hongqingsi Grottoes Hongqing Temple Grotto () is located in Yima, Henan. It consists of five caves, with a total of 46 shrines. More than 120 statues were chiseled during the Northern Wei Dynasty Wei (), known in historiography as the Northern Wei (), Tuoba Wei ...

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Yima, Henan Yima () is a county-level city in Henan, China. It is under the administration of Sanmenxia. Yima is located in the western part of Henan province. Since ancient times, it had been a key stopover between Luoyang and Changan. The city had great s ...

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Huanglong Cave Huanglong Cave () is a karst cave located in Wulingyuan District, Zhangjiajie City, Hunan, People's Republic of China and a national 4A rated scenic area. As of 2010, the cave has over a million visitors per year. Since 1997, the Huanglong Cave ...

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Jiangzhou Cave System Jiangzhou Cave System () is a cave system near Jiangzhou township, in Fengshan County, Guangxi, China. This cave has several entrances, with a total of of passages having been surveyed. It has an active series running approximately below the fo ...

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Kizil Caves The Kizil Caves ( zh, t=克孜爾千佛洞, s=克孜尔千佛洞, l=Kizil Caves of the Thousand Buddhas; ug, قىزىل مىڭ ئۆي, translation=The Thousand Red Houses; also romanized Qizil Caves, spelling variant Qyzyl; Kizil means 'red') ar ...

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Macaque Cave The Macaque Cave () is a karst cave located on the Macaque Ridge (猕猴岭) outside Dongfang City, Hainan, People's Republic of China. Description The cave covers an area of whilst at the entrance there are densely packed '' Sindora glabra' ...

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Reed Flute Cave The Reed Flute Cave (), also known as "the Palace of Natural Arts," is a landmark and tourist attraction in Guilin, Guangxi, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List ...

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Seven-star Cave Seven-star Cave () is an extensive limestone cave complex in Seven-star Park, both of which are popular tourist attractions in the city of Guilin in Guangxi Autonomous Region in China. The name derives from the fact the main karst limestone pe ...

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Shanjuan Cave Yixing Shanjuan Cave is located at the south-west of Yixing, 25 kilometres away in Luoyan Mountain. It is the earliest cave tourist attractions in China managed by Yangxian Scenic Spot Tourism Development Company. Introduction Shanjuan Cave, Hanr ...

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Shuanglong Cave Shuanglong Cave () is a water-filled karst cave some from Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China. Description The cave is high and long with a total area in excess of . Formed around 100 million years ago, the entrance is ...

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Tenglong Cave Tenglong Cave () is a cave located from Lichuan City, Hubei, China. It is believed to be the longest monomer karst cave system in the world. The cave entrance is and wide, leading to of passageways.. An underground network of streams runs for ...

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Tianyuan Cave Tianyuan Cave () is near Beijing, where Tianyuan man, one of the earliest modern humans, was found. The remains in the Tianyuan Cave have ancestral relations "to many present-day Asians and Native Americans". See also * Niah Caves * Fuyan Cave ...

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Xianren Cave The Xianren Cave (, ''Xiānréndòng''), together with the nearby Diaotonghuan (, ''Diàotǒnghuán'') rock shelter, is an archaeological site in Dayuan Township (), Wannian County in the Jiangxi province, China and a location of historically imp ...

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Xueyu Cave Snowy Jade Cave (a.k.a. Snow Jade Cave or Xueyu Cave, ) is a National Three Gorges Scenic Area and a National 4A Scenic Area located in Fengdu County, Chongqing Municipality, People's Republic of China, not far from the Yangtze River. Descript ...

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Zibo Zibo (, ) is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong province, China. It borders the provincial capital Jinan to the west, Tai'an to the southwest, Linyi to the south, Weifang to the east, Dongying to the northeast, and Binzhou to the ...

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Zhijin Cave Zhijin County is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Bijie in west-central Guizhou province, China. History Zhijin has been inhabited since the Qin, populated mainly by the Gelao. After the Jin, the Yi moved i ...

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Zhoukoudian Zhoukoudian Area () is a town and an area located on the east Fangshan District, Beijing, China. It borders Nanjiao and Fozizhuang Townships to its north, Xiangyang, Chengguan and Yingfeng Subdistricts to its east, Shilou and Hangcunhe Towns t ...

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Peking Man Peking Man (''Homo erectus pekinensis'') is a subspecies of '' H. erectus'' which inhabited the Zhoukoudian Cave of northern China during the Middle Pleistocene. The first fossil, a tooth, was discovered in 1921, and the Zhoukoudian Cave has s ...

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Buddhist grottoes

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Caves A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. The word ''cave'' can refer to smaller openings such as sea ...